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3rd Annual Student Workshop

July 18th-20th, 2007


Featuring:


Dr. Charles S. Peskin

Topic:

Modeling and Simulation in the Life Sciences


Sponsored by the Department of Mathematics at the University of Utah.


Funding provided by the National Science Foundation through the
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT).


Student Information

Monday
July 16th

1:00pm-3:00pm
LCB 215

Lectures by Karin Leiderman - The Heart and Circulation, and Lindsay Crowl - Gas Exchange in the Lungs

Tuesday
July 17th

1:00pm-3:00pm
LCB 215

Dr. James P. Keener - Control of Cell Volume and Electrical Properties of Cell Membranes

Wednesday
July 18th

9:00-9:30am
LCB 215

Coffee & Breakfast

9:30-9:45am
LCB 215

Introductions by Jim Keener and/or Aaron Fogelson

9:45am-10:45pm

Lecture- Cardiac mechanics and fluid mechanics by the immersed boundary method.
Abstract

10:45am-11:00am

Break

11:00am-12:00pm

Lecture- Some variations on the theme of immersed boundaries: cardiac electrophysiology, non-uniform density of structure or fluid, immersed filaments that resist both bend and twist, and molecular scale hydrodynamics with Brownian motion.
Abstract

12:00pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-5:00pm

Individual student or small group meetings

6:00pm-8:00pm

Dinner with students

Thursday
July 19th

9:00-9:30am
LCB 215

Coffee & Breakfast

9:30am-10:15am

Lecture- Computational neuroscience by the drift-diffusion equations with internal boundary conditions at membranes.
Abstract

10:15am-10:25am

Break

10:25am-11:10am
LCB 215

Lecture- The role of elasticity in the function of Brownian ratchet biomolecular motors.
Abstract

11:10am-11:20am

Break

11:20am-12:05pm
LCB 215

Lecture- Modeling endemic disease and its role in evolution.
Abstract

12:05pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-5:00pm

Individual student or small group meetings.

6:00pm-8:00pm

Dinner with post-docs/faculty.

Friday
July 20th

9:00-9:30am

Coffee & Breakfast

9:30am-12:00pm
LCB 215

Student presentations

12:0pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-5:00pm
LCB 215

Student presentations

6:00pm-10:00pm

Party at Dr. Keener's cabin

Past Student Workshops

2006

2005

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